The planning of new degree programs at colleges and universities is a deliberate process. Among other things, it involves months of: Discussions among the administration and the faculty. Attention to ...

If hiring capacity permits, program spots would increase by as much as 25 percent for the class of 2030, Yale College Dean ...

Is the scholarship program for the Ricketts Great Books program a normal scholarship awarded at the beginning of the semester to cover costs? Or is it a reimbursement only if the student passes all ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Mortimer J. Adler, a high school dropout who went on to become an educational theorist, a father of the Great Books program and the world's highest paid philosopher, died Thursday at ...

More than 110 first-year students were waitlisted for the Directed Studies program this fall, according to Katja Lindskog, the program’s director of undergraduate studies. The waitlist for the ...

We meet people like John Erskine, the grandfather of the Great Books movement and a “gentleman of the old school,” as Beam describes him. Erskine believed a great book was one that “has meaning, and ...

That system influenced his work as compiler of the Great Books of the Western World and as editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Earlier, in the 1930s, it was the underlying theme of the educational ...